A Bridge to Pinal Villa

Finally some decent work is done on the road to Pinal Villa. Hopefully, we'll get two more. They did grade most of the road but there are still two more water crossings. We also have new night lights around the "campo de futbol". Cihuatlan Government is doing what it promised. 

Whoops .... make that two bridges.  They must have finished this one late yesterday. Only one more to go.

New bridge and old school

The west end bridge that crosses the canal is finally finished. Two guys are working on expansion joints and that will be it except for painting a line down the middle.

They paved out to the highway and redid the on ramp towards Melaque.  Right now they are putting up a new metal guardrail where the guys are working.

And finally the old Secondaria on the highway. The picture is from a few days ago but now all but one building is a pile of rubble.  Destined to be a new soccer and sports field.

Bridge

On Ramp

Old Secondaria

Even a bridge can be a major event

Massive production for the new bridge in Melaque. 

Turn speakers down

West end bridge over the canal.  Took them a few months

Wider and higher bridge

I thought that the little loop detour they made around the bridge was for public use during construction .... but evidently it's for construction equipment only. The west entrance to Melaque is closed completely and will be for a few months.   It will reduce the angle of the curve of the canal and generally make much more clearance.

Raising Melaque Puente II

The bypass around the old bridge is just about ready unless they are going to pave it. This is the bridge at the west entrance to Melaque over the canal near Hotel Hacienda Melaque. I have seen water over the top of it before so I guess it makes sense raise it to the same level as the bridge on the highway. They built a whole new and larger one on highway 200 at the entrance to Boca de Iguanas in about 3 months so maybe this one in two?

The road

Bypass and culverts